The 1985WorldSeries, popularly known as the "Show-Me Series" and the "I-70 Series", pitted the National League champion St.

It was the second Missouri-only WorldSeries: the first was the 1944WorldSeries between two St.

The Cardinals'.185 batting average was the lowest for a seven-game WorldSeries until the New York Yankees hit.183 in the 2001WorldSeries.

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In baseball, the WorldSeries is the championship series of Major League Baseball in North America, played in October after the end of the regular season between the pennant winner of the American League and the pennant winner of the National League.

The Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff (except in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff) and is awarded the WorldSeries Trophy.

Landrum, in the Cardinals' lineup because of a Championship Series pregame injury suffered by rookie base-stealing sensation Vince Coleman, hit a bases-empty shot off Kansas City starter Bud Black in the second inning and McGee followed with a solo blast the next inning.

Jackson, on the other hand, was around at the finish as he completed a five-hit, 6-1 victory that sent the Series back to the western side of the state.

WorldSeries hero Saberhagen, who became a father for the first time the day before the finale against the Cards, had much to celebrate.

The Royals became the first team in WorldSeries history to lose the first two games at home and go on to win the WorldSeries.

The Series opened in Kansas City, but St. Louis captured a taut 3-1 decision as the Royals missed a number of excellent scoring chances.

With the WorldSeries shifting to St. Louis for Game 3, American League Cy Young winner Bret Saberhagen tossed a complete-game six-hitter and second baseman Frank White knocked in three runs to give the Royals a 6-1 victory.

The WorldSeries ratings are always among the highest rated shows of the week and come at a time when the networks, NBC and Fox, have among their largest viewerships of the year.

He pitched a perfect game in the WorldSeries against Brooklyn and his card and autograph still bring top dollar today, even though his career was mediocre at best after the 56 perfecto against Brooklyn.

But when the cameras were on during the WorldSeries, the Toronto catcher was unconscious at the plate and led the Blue Jays to back-to-back worlds championships.

In one of a series of controversial decisions, the head of state did not call for fresh elections, but instead appointed Tupuola Efi to replace the unseated Kolone as prime minister.

Tofilau Eti Alesana won the subsequent parliamentary vote for prime minister and was confirmed in office after the general election of February 1985.

But, in December 1985, he resigned when ex-Prime Ministers and former opponents, Kolone and Efi, joined forces to command the majority in Parliament and the head of state refused Alesana's request to call an early election.

In the second inning of Sunday's final game of the 1985WorldSeries, The War Within the State Darryl Motley, Kansas City's stocky rightfielder, whacked a fastball thrown by St. Louis lefthander John Tudor deep into the leftfield seats at Royals Stadium.

The WorldSeries championship was the first in the 17-year history of the franchise.

The Royals became the first team ever to lose the first two games of a Series at home and win, and they were only the fifth team 151; the 1979 Pirates were the last  to trail in a Series three games to one and win.

Game 5 of the WorldSeries was played October 24, 1985 while Game 6 was played on the 26 and Game 7 ws played on the 27.

When Doc uttered his line, there was at least one more game to play in the WorldSeries so he should have said "the winners of the next 26 Worls Series", this would include the Winner of the 1985WorldSeries, the Kansas City Royals.

Of course the answer to this is that BTTF was made long before the 1985WorldSeries, and the filmakers would not have known when it would have ended.

The Washington Nationals (Twins) won the 1924WorldSeries with 4 games, over the New York Giants (Giants) who won 3 games.

The Pittsburgh Pirates (Pirates) won the 1925WorldSeries with 4 games, over the Washington Nationals (Twins) who won 3 games.

The (Angels) won the 1959WorldSeries with 4 games, over the Chicago White Sox (White Sox) who won 2 games.

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Kansas City, MO -- Celebrate the Kansas City Royals greatest moments on and off the field as the Kansas City Royals WorldSeries heroes and Community Blood Center team up to host the 1985WorldSeries Reunion Blood Drive.

Registered donors, who will be the real heroes of the day, will receive a commemorative t-shirt, two free tickets to a 2005 Royals game, and a chance to win exciting prizes, including an opportunity to throw out a first pitch before a Royals game.

In addition, at select Kansas City area locations, fans will be able to meet members of the 1985WorldSeries team.

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eady to play last WorldSeries of the Twentieth Century, the New York Yankees were all ready to strengthen their title as Team of the Century.

The Yankees had won American League Division Series beating the Texas Rangers 3-0, and also won the Championship Series defeating the Boston Red Sox, 4-1.

The Atlanta Braves had come up in the National League and made their ninth appearance in the WorldSeries.

The game's been overshadowed by the events of the next year's WorldSeries Game Six, but was remarkable in its own right.

To briefly recap: With the Cards leading the series 3-2, the game was scoreless until the top of the eighth, when the Cards took a lead when Brian Harper singled home Terry Pendleton but left the bases loaded.

Posted by: Linkmeister at October 16, 2003 04:15 PM Bill James (a Royals fan) wrote a long -- but great -- piece on the history of KC baseball, the second half of which is about that series.

So the subject of Don Denkinger, and whether he is to blame for the Cardinals losing the 1985WorldSeries is of some interest, and I was quite satisfied that an entire half hour had been devoted to my penultimate moment of adolescent fandom.

See, Cardinals fans would have you believe that the entire series was lost on Denkinger's famously blown call at first base in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 6 in Kansas City.

Coleman, the league's most dangerous basestealer in a speed-crazy era, was out for the series after having his leg mangled by a mechanical tarp that had inadvertently been started.

What the Royals failed to do was beat the Cards, falling 3-1 in the first game of the 82nd WorldSeries and in the process wasting an outstanding pitching performance by starter Danny Jackson, who gave up only four hits while striking out seven in seven innings.

They were within one out, one pitch of evening the WorldSeries at one victory each against the St. Louis Cardinals.

KANSAS CITY, MO. -- The Kansas City Royals capped a season of comebacks and made WorldSeries history Sunday with an 11-0 rout of their cross-state rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals, to take the 1985 championship of baseball in seven games.

As intriguing as it might be to believe so, the film Back to the Future II, the first sequel to the hit 1985 movie Back to the Future, made no prediction, correct or otherwise, about the results of the 1997WorldSeries.

The broadcast shown in the film merely pokes some light-hearted fun at the ongoing futility of the Chicago Cubs, who haven't played in a WorldSeries since 1945 (or won a WorldSeries since 1908).

With the Cubs approaching within a game of capturing the 2003 National League pennant in a series against the Florida Marlins, this rumor surfaced again, updated with the claim that Back to the Future II somehow predicted a Cubs victory over Florida in 2003.

Hachem had flopped a straight and Steve was drawing to a tie with one of the 3 remaining sevens on the river.

Prior to becoming a poker pro, Eric was a world-class backgammon player; for eight years, he traveled the world to attend the most important matches on that circuit.

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When fans reflect on the all-MissouriWorldSeries between St. Louis and Kansas City in 1985, first base umpire Don Denkinger is certain to be a focal point in the conversation.

Kansas City manager Dick Howser and St. Louis manager Whitey Herzog made a series of substitutions and the end result of that battle of wits was the left-handed-hitting Orta going against the righty Worrell.

From the brink of WorldSeries elimination, the Royals had fought back to force Game 7.

A season that saw Pete Rose break Ty Cobb's career base hit record, a two-day players' strike, and an image-deflating drug scandal was capped by the most remarkable series of postseason comebacks in baseball history.

The Kansas City Royals rallied from 3-1 deficits in both the league championship...